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Dear UK Colleagues

Please send the following link to your local MP and ask them to support the
EARLY DAY MOTION.

http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetai ... ESSION=875

Overseas Colleagues, please send it to your own representatives and alert
them.

Rgds
Soroush
47 UK Members of Parliament now support aspartame ban initiative of Roger
Williams, MP: Murray 2006.10.16

http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetai ... ESSION=875

UK Parliamentary Information Management Services [PIMS ]

Early Day Motion EDM 1517

TOXIC PROPERTIES OF ASPARTAME 30.01.2006 January 30, 2006

Williams, Roger

That this House expresses deep concern over the numerous independent
toxicological studies and thousands of subjective reports attesting to the
toxic effects of the artificial sweetener aspartame on human health; notes
that aspartame, once patented as a biochemical warfare agent, is the
synthetically produced methyl ester of a dipeptide which is readily broken
down in the gut to release methanol; further notes that in naturally
occurring foodstuff methanol is either not released into the body
toxic effects; recognises that methanol is a well known poison and is
further converted into formaldehyde, a class A carcinogen according to the
World Health Organisation's International Agency for Research on Cancer;
accepts that severe health concerns occur from the gradual accumulation of
formaldehyde in the body which cannot be excreted and that further research
has shown that long term low level exposure to formaldehyde induces
leukaemia and nasopharyngeal cancer in humans; acknowledges that of the 166
studies conducted on aspartame's safety deemed relevant to humans, 92 per
cent. of independently sponsored studies identified one or more problems
with aspartame's safety whereas industry-sponsored studies found unanimously
in favour of aspartame's safety; and urges the Government to abide by the
precautionary principle and make use of Statutes 13 and 16 of the 1990 Food
Safety Act to remove aspartame from the permitted list of additives on the
UK market.

Signatures( 47)

Conservative Party
Conway, Derek
Goodwill, Robert
Pelling, Andrew
Spink, Bob

Democratic Unionist Party
Campbell, Gregory
McCrea, Dr William
Robinson, Iris
Simpson, David

Labour Party
Jones, Lynne
Austin, John
Banks, Gordon
Brown, Lyn
Corbyn, Jeremy
Crausby, David
Cryer, Ann
Dismore, Andrew
Drew, David
Etherington, Bill
Godsiff, Roger
Hoyle, Lindsay
Jenkins, Brian
Lazarowicz, Mark
McDonnell, John
Simpson, Alan
Taylor, David
Turner, Desmond
Vis, Rudi

Liberal Democrats
Baker, Norman
Brake, Tom
Brooke, Annette
Cable, Vincent
George, Andrew
Hancock, Mike
Harvey, Nick
Horwood, Martin
Keetch, Paul
Mulholland, Greg
Opik, Lembit
Stunell, Andrew
Swinson, Jo
Williams, Mark
Williams, Roger
Williams, Stephen
Younger-Ross, Richard

Plaid Cymru
Llwyd, Elfyn

Respect
Galloway, George

Social Democratic and Labour Party
McDonnell, Alasdair
FOLLOWING LINKS GIVE YOU MORE INFO

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1094
the 11% methanol component of aspartame becomes formaldehyde, now ruled a
carcinogen by WHO International Agency for Research on Cancer: Murray
2004.06.16

"Survey of aspartame studies: correlation of outcome and funding sources,"
1998, unpublished: http://www.dorway.com/peerrev.html Walton found 166
separate published studies in the peer reviewed medical literature, which
had relevance for questions of human safety.

The 74 studies funded by industry all (100 %) attested to aspartame's
safety, whereas of the 92 non-industry funded studies, 84 (91 %) identified
a problem. Six of the seven non-industry funded studies that were favorable
to aspartame safety were from the FDA, which has a public record that shows
a strong pro-industry bias.

Ralph G. Walton, MD, Prof. of Clinical Psychology, Northeastern Ohio
Universities, College of Medicine, Dept. of Psychiatry, Youngstown, OH
44501, Chairman, The Center for Behavioral Medicine, Northside Medical
Center, 500 Gypsy Lane, P.O. Box 240 Youngstown, OH 44501 330-740-3621
rwalton193@aol.com
http://www.neoucom.edu/DEPTS/Psychiatry/walton.htm

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/805
Ive: UK Daily Mirror Magazine: aspartame toxicity: Murray 2002.02.18